{"id":1137,"date":"2011-02-22T12:08:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2011-04-15T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T16:30:33","slug":"lpi-lpic-1-and-novell-cla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"LPI LPIC-1 and Novell CLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux Professional Institute has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.org\/eng\/certification\/lpi_and_novell_partnership\">a partnership with Novell<\/a>.\u00a0 Holders of LPIC certifications are eligible to receive  the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novell.com\/training\/certinfo\/cla\/\">Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA)<\/a> certification at no  additional cost or exams.\u00a0 Once you hold LPIC-1, then follow the directions at LPI&#8217;s page on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpi.org\/eng\/certification\/lpi_and_novell_partnership\">Novell partnership page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get LPIC-1.\u00a0 The best way in my opinion is to take the CompTIA Linux+ exams.<\/li>\n<li>Got to the <a href=\"https:\/\/practicum.novell.com\/LPI2CLAForm.php\">Novell CLA registration form<\/a>.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll need your LPI ID and other info from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cs.lpi.org\/caf\/Xamman\/candidate_area\">LPI Candidate Area<\/a>.\u00a0 Fill out the form.<\/li>\n<li>Once you hit submit, you will immediately get a welcome email.\u00a0 It takes a day or two to see the new certification at Novell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!\u00a0 Pretty easy.\u00a0 So for the &#8220;3 in 1&#8221; Linux certifications (Linux+, LPIC-1, CLA) do them in this order:\u00a0 Linux+, then LPIC-1, then CLA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1161\">Note that Novell also automatically awards you Data Center Technical Specialist (DCTS) when you get CLA, you don&#8217;t have to do anything more, it is automatically granted at the same time as CLA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/GregoryPorter_NCLA_ECR.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003\" title=\"novell_cla\" src=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/novell_cla.jpg\" alt=\"novell_cla\" width=\"208\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux Professional Institute has a partnership with Novell.\u00a0 Holders of LPIC certifications are eligible to receive the Novell Certified Linux Administrator (CLA) certification at no additional cost or exams.\u00a0 Once you hold LPIC-1, then follow the directions at LPI&#8217;s&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=1137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}